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Ken has certainly extracted the key paragraph. In general I thought the opening parts praising the huge mobilization were pretty naive about the range of opinions involved -- a naivete all the more striking for the authors' admission that the vast majority of Arabs/Muslims stayed home. Anyway, this article from today's Times is a scary preview of new repressive measures -- aimed not at actions, but at any dissent from "republican values"! And not just repression, but affirmative steps to mandate their acceptance! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-attack-leads-to-changes-in-french-schools.html?ref=world&_r=0 On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Charlie Hebdo – And now what? The events, their impact and the issues at > play. > > http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3824 > > Fifth problem: our weakness and the overall weakening of the working-class > movement in its historic bastions, especially in Europe. Capitalist > globalization has plunged our societies into an endless downward spiral of > social crises. Casual forms of work are spreading and taking on extreme > forms. Neither the “left of the Left” nor the trade unions are in a > position to provide a radical response to the radical attacks of globalized > capital. In such conditions, fundamentalism (of all religions) and the new > far-Right (xenophobic and racist) is laying claim to the ideological ground > of radicalism. We need a broad international anti-fascist and > anti-fundamentalist resistance front, but also an activist Left capable of > providing a radical alternative to capitalism. To achieve this, such a Left > has to be rooted among those sectors hit hardest by job insecurity. This is > not the case today, and this is one of our Achilles’ heels. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
